The Pump House Environment Centre, Barbourne, Worcester
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The Pump House Environment Centre, Barbourne, Worcester
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 26 Feb 2012
The former waterworks building now an environment centre. The architecture is fine and these buildings once held steam pumps although the chimney is long gone. The grounds contain a small horizontal duplex non-rotative steam pump. The waterworks was a Thomas Hawksley design and was built in at least two phases in 1857 and 1868. Apparently the engines were removed in 1895 and electric pumps installed. That was a very early installation and steam pumps were to be installed in UK waterworks until the 1930s. The site closed in 1995 and the Environment Centre was opened in 2004.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.206671
Longitude
-2.234092